What a great read! It's so interesting to know how fabrics were used in the past. The story behind the pieces of fabric left behind is both emotional, but also testimony of how women lived, the poverty they had to face and that led them to abandon their children. It's also testimony of generations of children who were abandoned. While reading this piece I thought about the many literature classics of the XIXth century that depicted the lives of these orphans and how the UK exploited them.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Unfortunately, things were really tough for single mothers and their children. Yes, Dickens wrote about the workhouses because he experienced them, and I guess even if that was a try at social welfare by the state they must have been horrendous.
What a great read! It's so interesting to know how fabrics were used in the past. The story behind the pieces of fabric left behind is both emotional, but also testimony of how women lived, the poverty they had to face and that led them to abandon their children. It's also testimony of generations of children who were abandoned. While reading this piece I thought about the many literature classics of the XIXth century that depicted the lives of these orphans and how the UK exploited them.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Unfortunately, things were really tough for single mothers and their children. Yes, Dickens wrote about the workhouses because he experienced them, and I guess even if that was a try at social welfare by the state they must have been horrendous.